Ventilating cream-can cover.



' w; B. RICHARDSON. VENTILATING CREAM CAN COVER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 1.9]?-

1,259,047. Patented 1131 .12, 191s.

ATTORNEY WALTER B. RICH'ARDSON, OF FALLON, NEVADA.

VENTILATING CREAM-CAN Specification of Letters Patent.

COVER.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

Application flied. March 26, 1917. Serial No. 151,545.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVAL'rnn B. RICHARD- son, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fallon, in the county of Churchill and State of Nevada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilating Cre am'Can Covers, of which the following is a. specification.

My invention relates to milk or cream cans-and the principal object of the invention is to provide means ior ventilating or cooling the contents of the can While pre venting insects, dirt or other foreign bodies from gettingintothe can or contaminating theicontents thereof.

Another object oi? the invention .is to provide means for setting up admit in the can and fordireoting the air currents onto the milk or cream. 4 I

Anotherohject of the invention is to make it applicable to cans as new man e it can be embodied thereon-Without much changeinsaid cans.

I Another object of lily-invention is to :.pro-

vide a device'oi th'ischaracterwhich is simpleand durable in con struction,- reliable and effi ntin operation' and one which" can be ctured and placed upon the market minimum cost. oomplish the aboveand various other oh .inven'tion con$ l$tsesjsentially of a" canhav1ng Wife-covered openings therein, locatedat difierent levels, and of a partition ating the openings and directi a, ,ents downwardly onto the milk. e-i'nvention also consists in certain other ,7 eatures of construction and in the combina- =tion and arrangement of the several parts,

hereinafter finlly described and specifionly ointed out in the appended claims.

@111. 'esoribing my or rice will be had to the accompanying wherein like characters denote e-or corresponding" parts throughout the se e al views, and inwhichz' v 'f: Figural is an elevation-showing how one series relation to the other.

of lioles-l'e's n- F is .a sectional view. 3'1 indicates the can top down into the can invention in detail, ref- 01' cover, provided with the rim 2, and above this rim 1S provided a series of openings 3 extending approximately half way around the cover. l indicates another series of openings extending approximately half Way around the other side of the can, such openings being located above the lane oftho first series of openings. 7 in ioates gauze covering'the openings.

In theinteriotof the can cover I'locate a partition 5 dividing the cover in halves so and said partition is so placed as to lie be tween the two series of openings.' Said partition is securely fastened to the Walls of the cover and the to thereoff'aiidprojects ar enough to come a the milk short distance. ab0ve .-the level of whenthe' can is'fu'lli In the dravyings,i"the cover is rovided with an. extension 6,.- extending as at down into'the-can as doesthe part tion. It will 7c 3 be seen that-when the can 1 i s filled aiidth cover placed thereon a draft will .be set up, due to the high temperature oi: the milk,,,so that'itlieair'is causedto circulate through the holesof the lower series down around the partition, Where it comes in closeoonw tact with the milk, and then up on theother side oft'he partition and out through the holes of the 11 per series. Thus, it is not neoes'sarytfltlflvif the milk to'stand uncov ,80 cred while being-'cooled-and all fl i Kerof an thin getting into the milk is avoi ed.

t is t ought from the toregoingthat the advantages and novel features of my inyen; tion will beireadily apparent.

' I desire it-to be on erstood thatI may make slight changes the construction and in the combination and arran ement of the several parts,'providedsuch e anges .fall' within the seope'of the appended claims? I claim asmy invention: 1. A milk can cover, having openings on opposite sides thereof, one 0 ening being lo- I cated above the plane oft e other; and a partition sefiparating'theopemngs. 9.5

2. A mi 1 can cover, having auze covered openmgson oppgsite sides t ere-of the 1 0;...enings on'zone' side i lthlm .t ose.

on the other, and a partition within the can cover: separating the lower openings from the higher ones.

3. A. milk can. cover, having gauze (1e vernal e3iei'iirl'gsbii opposite sides thereof, the openings on one side being higher than these on the other, a, pn 'liitiun ill. the interior of' M10 can cover separating the lower. openii'lgs from the higher ones, said piwtition extending down to a point adjacent the lower end 1m 01: Um: cover, and an extension engaging with (he 10 WW part of the partition.

In testimony whereof I :iflix my signeinn'e in gmieqnce 0'? have Witnesses.

WAL'jER B. RICl-IARDSON. W in masses R. if). lffimijelmv, E. M. IIANSEIN. 

